Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Primus inter Pares. By law, Secretary of State Dean Rusk is the President's chief adviser on foreign policy. Yet in the current White House conferences on new policies for Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and disarmament, Rusk is just one of many voices, ranking no higher than primus inter pares. In deciding his policy, John Kennedy does indeed listen to Rusk; but he may just as likely turn to his squad of White House professors and kibitzers, principally to Arthur Schlesinger and McGeorge Bundy of Harvard, Walt Rostow of M.I.T. Time after time, Kennedy reaches out past Rusk to cull...
...Kennedy also assigned Arthur Schlesinger as a one-man presidential troubleshooter for the continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from their paper planning on Laos to give advice on Cuba; Nitze and Attorney General Robert Kennedy added their potent voices in council. Fortnight ago, the President created still another Latin America specialist, sent U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on a prestige-building, length-of-the-continent trip. Inevitably, the efficiency of the State Department regulars has suffered. Since January, four...
...good riddance for a very poor idea: last week negotiations between the Kennedy-recruited Tractors-for-Freedom Committee and Cuba's Fidel Castro broke down...
...after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...hours, told the press: "I firmly believe that relations between this democracy and the great democracy of North America will become constantly closer and more intimate." On Castro, whom Stevenson tactfully refrained from bringing up first, Quadros simply reiterated his previous stand: the dictator was a problem for Cuba, not the U.S. or the hemisphere, to solve...